[OpenAFS] com_err hell (WAS: asetkey: failed to set key, code 70354694)

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Marcus Watts wrote:

> Carson Gaspar <carson@taltos.org>
>> From: Carson Gaspar <carson@taltos.org>
>> To: openafs-info <openafs-info@openafs.org>
>> References: <200704091946.PAA15130@quince.ifs.umich.edu>
>> In-Reply-To: <200704091946.PAA15130@quince.ifs.umich.edu>
>> Subject: [OpenAFS] com_err hell (WAS: asetkey: failed to set key, code 70354694)
>> Sender: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org
>> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:13:58 -0700
>>
>> Re: the whole com_err mess...
>>
>> If AFS has an incompatible implementation, why not just rename the
>> exported functions / vars and get it over with? This should be no more
>> than a day's work, and would solve the problem very nicely. Or am I
>> missing something?
>
> From an application standpoint that would be a very
> disappointing answer - it means you can't really have
> one error number space anymore.

Well, for the moment you can't anyway, really. We need to find a way to 
unify with Heimdal, ext2 and MIT Krb5 but until we do we can at least make 
it possible to not lose.